„bulgakov mikhail”

Written in 1932, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author?s death, The Life of Monsieur de Moli?re charts the life of the French playwright, from his humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies. The work was met with disapproval by the Soviet authorities, who detected ...

THE ORIGINAL AND BEST TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL GLENNY 50th Anniversary Edition. Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, descriptions were issued of the man: expensive grey suit, grey beret, one green eye and the other black. He arrives in Moscow one hot summer afternoon with various alarming accomplices, including a demoni...

Part of „Alma Classics Evergreens” series, The Master and Margarita is here presented in a new translation and a wealth of extra material.

In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author?s own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor?s turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bul...

In Bulgakov?s ?Diaboliad?, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the i...

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of The Master and Margarita ? now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature ? was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diaries were sei...

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918?19, The White Guard, Bulgakov?s first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy?s War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast between the cosy dom...

Begun in 1920 while Bulgakov was employed in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, and continued when he started working for a government literary department in Moscow, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos...

Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country?s poultry stocks, Persikov?s discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Sov...

A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An ab...